Introduce you to michael schoeppner. Dr. Michael schoeppner is an associate professor of history at the university of maine in farmington. Hes an expert on the social and legal history of the 19th century United States. Hes an expert. Oh, i said that already. His research focuses on the movements of black migrants, seeing them as a window to understand both the broader africanamerican experience, as well as formal political and legal change. In 2019, Cambridge University press published dr. Shatners first book, moral contagion black atlantic soldiers, sailors, citizenship and diplomacy in antebellum america, which the Southern Historical association awarded the 2021 james a raleigh prize for the best book on the sectional crisis. Please join me in welcoming him. Thank you. Thank you, bethany, for the wonderful introduction. Its wonderful to be here. This is actually my first time in newburyport and my first time at this museum. And i know im preaching to the choir here, but what a quai
His research focuses on the movements of black migrants, seeing them as a window to understand both the broader africanamerican experience, as well as formal political and legal change. In 2019, Cambridge University press published dr. Shatners first book, moral contagion black atlantic soldiers, sailors, citizenship and diplomacy in antebellum america, which the Southern Historical association awarded the 2021 james a raleigh prize for the best book on the sectional crisis. Please join me in welcoming him. Thank you. Thank you, bethany, for the wonderful introduction. Its wonderful to be here. This is actually my first time in newburyport and my first time at this museum. And i know im preaching to the choir here, but what a quaint, beautiful, charming town. And the facilities here are fantastic. So obviously, you all that are here know that the people that are watching remotely, you can take my word for it, but you should not just take my word for it. I cant wait to come back to the
My excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very earliest 19th century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. Sidebar, he blamed it all on his many years of School Teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. He wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. Opium was the solution, and who can disagree . In writing about his laudanum habit i found it necessary to rethink my own ideas about addiction. He and his contemporaries spoke of opium as his demon, acknowledging its addictive qualities, they also tended to say that his real problem was melancholy itself. Since the publication of the alcohol at republic in 1979, scholars have explored the extent to which 19th century americans wrestled with addictiv
Welcome, and thank you for coming to the roundtable, with the unwieldy and yet highly evocative title drugs, alcohol, and the gendered and racial experience of addiction in the early republic. I am carolyn eastman, and im pleased to inform you that the subject of this roundtable proved evocative enough that cspan is filming us right now. A fact that gives me an additional opportunity to remind my excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. He blamed it all on his many years of School Teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. He wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. Opium was the solution, and who can disagree . In writing about his laudanum hab
Suspects in the black van struck the Police Squad Car and opened fire on officers. That crash and shootout happened outside Police Headquarters in dallas texas. The officers then chased the van into the town of hutchins where there was another shoot outin a parking lot. Overnight it was said that no officers were injured but bags had been found with pipebombs. Joining me now is nbc news correspondent Charles Hadlock. What do we know about the man inside the van . We know he might be dead. They he was shot by Dallas Police Sharp Shooters perhaps with a. 50 caliber weapon something Strong Enough to penetrate the armored steel and heavy bulletproof glass that surrounded the van. They still dont have a positive i. D. On who the man is. He did call 911 and identified himself, if it is that man, they say he has three prior Family Violence incidents on his record. He has a case of mental history apparently. He choked his mother choked his uncle, lost custody of a child. He was very angry abou